Year: 2020

Literature: Maus by Art Spiegelman

TLS reviews one of the most stunning works both within and beyond the graphic novel format, testifying to its lasting resonance and brilliance.
[Aggregate score: 10]

AFI Top 100 #018: The General

TLS hijacks a train back to the 1920s era of film to catch up with Buster Keaton’s somewhat divisive flick, The General.
[Aggregate score: 6]

Literature: Day of the Builders by Kristine Ong Muslim

TLS faces off with colonists of some sort or another in this short story.
[Aggregate score: 7.5]

Film & TV: Children of Heaven

TLS follows the captivating journey of two siblings in southern Tehran who just want their shoes back.
[Aggregate score: 9.75]

Literature: The Christmas Tree and the Wedding by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

TLS finds a shiny leftover present at the bottom of the stocking– a review of a Dostoyevsky story set in an odd Christmas party. [Aggregate score: 10]

Film & TV: Attenberg

TLS trudges through the morose tale of a Greek woman and her estranged relationships in a run-down town. [Aggregate score: 6.75]

Literature: Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

TLS reviews this critically acclaimed graphic novel about the author’s experiences growing to teenhood in 1970s-1980s Iran.
[Aggregate score: 10]

AFI Top 100 #070: A Clockwork Orange

Viddy well our real horrorshow episode on Stanley Kubrick’s influential adaptation of A Clockwork Orange. Yarblockos.
[Aggregate score: 9.25]

Philosophy & Narrative: Nostalgia in Media

We look back to yesteryear in the present pop culture climate at the use of the concept and idea of nostalgia as incorporated into art as well as a marketing tool to sell said art, via these two articles on the topic.

Film & TV: The Gentlemen

TLS navigates a seedy underbelly of (mostly) British criminals and their antics in Guy Ritchie’s latest gangster-em-up, The Gentlemen. [Aggregate score: 8]